Without talking about all the issues with ret for once, let me just add another one.
CAN ANYONE EXPLAIN TO ME WHY REPENTANCE IS STILL CASTED? both the range and cast time are pitiful in this abomination of an ability.
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Is anyone going to take repentance over blinding light outside of niche cases?
Maybe, maybe not, my point stands tho, any other cc of this nature is instant, why do we always get shafted with the worst version of things?
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Good question.
This is where I’d put the answer to that question…
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The cast time I could understand if it’s range wasn’t so abysmal. It short range I could understand if it was instant cast. But then it Cooldown might be too short.
The simple truth I think is they don’t want paladins having something as power as Paralysis in essence etc. So just stacked on multiple drawbacks. Because its one thing for ret to have it, its another for holy paladins to. And healers already have too much of everything
Anyone remember when Turn Evil was useable on players in MoP. This is kind of a nerfed version of that when you think about it.
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I mean, cross-cc on a healer in Arenas, maybe depending on the circumstances in BGs. But, no, outside of niche builds there’s no reason to take a non-spammable single-target CC over the AoE blind that doesn’t break on holy damage
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Because Holy can get it. It’s that simple.
Never mind Mistweavers with instant physical CC.
Because pvp. Blizzard doesnt want paladins, certainly ret to have an instant ranged cc unlike rogues mages monks dhs warriors druids and even dks
You forgot Hunters, who can actually pre-cast their CC so it’s waiting for you when you find it.
Most of Ret and Hpal in pvp.
Most hpals use Blind over rep just because its instant cast despite having to be near your target.
But I feel like, it should keep casted for Holy and Prot and be 1min cd, instant cast for Ret.
How about a Ret talent that makes Repentance instant cast, but increases its cooldown. Or make it be affected by Selfless Healer.
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Well, Hex in Dragonflight is moving to a 1.7 sec cast, with Voodoo Mastery reducing the Cooldown from 30 to 15sec.
For Holy and Prot, I think it will be fine as is, as at least Hex is going to be similar to Repentance in Healer CC strengths.
But Repentance maybe should have a damage threshold before it breaks for Holy and Prot.
For Ret, it should be instant, 45 sec cooldown and last 5 seconds. This would allow for Paladins to have similar secondary CC to DH or Monks with Repent, or similar secondary CC to Warriors and DK with Blinding Light.
Or just make the spell different when Ret takes it. They can easily do that if they want to. It doesn’t change the class talent layout at all; it just makes casting it function differently, but is basically still the same spell otherwise.
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